Winterbottom is always a competent director, no matter what subject he pursues, so while he doesn’t quite illuminate the politics of the tragic situation he depicts, there is nothing crude about the rendering.
The first half of this program consisted of two sets of shorter pieces known as "character-pieces," by Dvorak and Janacek, while the second half began with an earlier example from Robert Schumann.
For their second production as Chester Theatre’s co-artistic directors, Michelle Ong-Hendrick and Christopher Baker have given their audience a remarkable adventure to witness.
Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford was Arthur Hugh Clough (pronounced “cluff”) who became important as a bridge poet between the Victorian and Modern eras.
You would think that after nearly 100 years of movies sounding the alarm, we might have taken the hint. Instead, we live with remakes and sequels that shift the messaging to match the times.
As my regular readers know, I am not a fan of solo-performance mono-dramas. This has been a season of several of them, and this one has the advantage of special interest, no sexual abuse, and career highlights that are amazing to hear about.
"To direct, Williamstown has engaged R.B. Schlather, a critics’ darling for his community-based, stripped-down Handel productions in Hudson, New York. A daring pairing." — AIR MAIL
This is not your usual comedy (no one dies in the play, so it is technically a comedy), but it is a graphic, quirky comic look at a segment of humanity we probably know little about.
The Globe and Mail described Daniil Trifonov as “arguably today’s leading classical virtuoso,” while the Times called him “without question the most astounding pianist of our age.”
The claustrophobia of the car is a perfect fit for the movies. Cars can take you wherever you want to go, sure, but for the duration of that trip you are confined in a small space with no escape.
Aston Magna’s four concert weekends span several centuries and styles, from early 17th-century composer Dario Castello to contemporary Baroque specialist Nicola Canzano.
Ted Shawn, the Pillow’s founder and creative center for decades and famous for bringing dance and performance from all over the world to the Pillow, would have been proud.
